Monday, May 30, 2016

The Anything & Everything Shoppe is now nothing & rotting...

...an old horse barn keeps watch from a distance.

The building (2nd & 3rd photos) which last housed the Anything & Everything Shoppe has had several incarnations in the past. It was a Gold (buy and sell) store, and I believe before that a thrift store.

It is located in a superb commercial location on Highway 200, the main thoroughfare through southwest Ocala.

Behind it is another building, pictured above...an old horse barn. That's been sitting empty for at least six years. The horses are long gone.

I'm intrigued that these structures are vacant & deteriorating in the midst of a thriving commercial area.

Me again. Yes, I zip lined down in Costa Rica with my friend Julie. It was one of the scariest things I've ever done. I thought there would be a thick canopy of threes but, there wasn't and I was looking way down at the ground all the time. One platform had a two-step-up ladder that I had to climb up on in order to get hooked to the line. I really thought I would die on that one. But, I finished the whole circuit and vowed that I never needed to do that again.

There’s something melancholic about the abandoned building, which once thrived and then declining. The Ocala temperature on the sidebar tells 75F, while my place 93F right now. I had thought Ocala is much warmer than here.

Although it might be thriving, obviously no prospective entrepreneur is ready to try. The economy is still sort of iffy, so why be in a hurry, until the area begins to see traffic, if ever! What is actually needed or wanted in the area and what are the costs and odds? In the meantime, the 200 corridor is a better bet at the moment. That is usually the calculation needed to entice a risk taker. Right now, we are not even sure the nation will survive the next election in a possibly stalemated form of government for another eight years if Mitch MC continues in office as a Leader.